Excerpt from The Science of Symbols Setting Forth the True Reason for Symbolism and Ritual, Their Relation, to the Teaching of Christ, and Their, Necessary Adoption by All Forms, of Religious Expression
Few of us but feel, i think, that we live in times of strange movement and change. If, when we were younger and read and felt romance, we carried our imagination on from our books into our lives, it was not a real world that appealed to our sentiment, it was a false world which we created for the time to suit our convenience. We left this fictitious and imaginary world for the real and commonplace one with regret, and returned to it with ease, till the increasing sophistication of our surroundings and the necessity for that exercising of the mind in different directions, which we call education, brought a day in which we felt our fairyland was deliberately played out, and left it without remorse perhaps, but inevitably, for ever.
We have no right to quarrel with the change. Those delusions which are delightful in irresponsible childhood, would certainly become ridiculous or selfish to-day in responsible men and women.
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